Drawing on a range of country styles from Americana to traditional, pop to rock, Catherine Britt has produced a strong collection of songs on her sixth album. The opening title track gets things off to a rollicking and raw start before the beautiful ache of the string-laden ‘Good To Be Bad’ slows things down. From there … Continue reading
With her debut LP Solitude fresh on the shelves Ruby Boots has also just released the video clip for the single ‘Wrap Me In A Fever’. To celebrate and promote the new album she is about to play a run of dates across WA, VIC, NSW and QLD starting this week in her home state of WA. … Continue reading
The weather has been fairly chaotic of late here in Sydney and one victim of it’s wrath was the Petersham Bowling Club, one of the finest supporters of roots music with live shows, craft beer and a family friendly environment. They suffered water damage and had to reschedule some shows while they cleaned up the … Continue reading
Throw The Band and The Felice Brothers into a roots music blender and you’ll end up with something resembling Houndmouth. On their second album they’ve taken their already impressive Americana sound to another level with rousing, infectious choruses, heartbreaking harmonies and a looser rock ’n’ roll feel. This is modern suburban Appalachian music that sounds … Continue reading
It has been a big week for Americana related tour announcements with news that The Milk Carton Kids, Mary Chapin Carpenter & Tift Merritt and Ryan Adams & Jenny Lewis will be touring here over the next few months. Local acts have also got in on the action with Marlon Williams announcing an Australian and New … Continue reading
Marlon Williams has released a clip for ‘Strange Things’, the first single that preceded the release of his brand new solo LP. Watch Williams and Aldous Harding muck about in some sort of surreal interplay that has a nice plot twist late in the piece. Williams is currently playing a trio of record store solo gigs to … Continue reading
Calexico have just released their new album Edge of The Sun via Spunk Records and it is shaping up as their finest in years. A great example of that is the soaring ‘Falling From The Sky’ featuring Ben Bridwell of Band Of Horses. Here’s the weird and disturbing clip for the track… Continue reading
The two outlaw country legends Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard have teamed up for a new album (Django and Jimmie) and on the evidence of this clip for the first single they had a barrel of fun recording it. I’t’s All Going To Pot’ is a lively and funny play on words and Willie’s infamous … Continue reading
Dan Parsons is something of a go-to guy on the Melbourne scene for his guitar playing. Recently he’s hit the six strings for Marlon Williams, Tracy McNeil and others but he is an established songwriter in his own right. He has a third solo record coming out this year, here’s the first taste of it … Continue reading
Like a straighter American cousin to C.W. Stoneking’s more esoteric old-timey sound, Pokey LaFarge blends all manner of traditional musical forms – from jazz and swing to folk, country, doo-wop and mariachi. It’s all woven together in LaFarge’s authentic style on this, his most realised album to date. With a band that he’s been playing … Continue reading
Shelby Lynne’s new album I Can’t Imagine is due for release on May 5th via Rounder Records. You can pre-order the CD/LP/Digital (plus bundles with her remastered classic I Am Shelby Lynne album) HERE and in the meantime you can check out the great clip for the equally wonderful title track. Continue reading
Mark Lucas is taking a detour from his work with band The Dead Setters to release his new solo album Little Town Blues on Laughing Outlaw Records. The first taste of the album is the song and video for ‘Tell The DJ’, a plea to the DJ from a heartbroken soul featuring Brielle Davis on backing vocals … Continue reading
Whitey Morgan is coming off the back of his excellent live LP Born And Raised And Live From Flint and he’s already got a brand new studio album Sonic Ranch ready for release on May 19th via his own imprint Whitey Morgan Music. Here’s his cover of the essential Townes Van Zandt song ‘Waitin’ ‘Round To … Continue reading
Elvis Perkins has been floating around the music business periphery since his very good debut solo LP Ash Wednesday came out in 2007. His latest which was released in February is I Aubade which is a much denser, layered and raw collection of folk ruminations that veer towards the eclecticism of a band like Califone … Continue reading
Steve Gunn is one of the key members of the burgeoning scene of guitarists (Cian Nugent, Ryley Walker, Chris Forsyth) that have expanded their sound into song form from more experimental leanings, Gunn released his superb Way Out Weather album last year and now he’s filmed a clip for the dreamy, sparkling track ‘Wildwood’. Continue reading
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